Which of the following statements best describes the state of the church in the 14th century, according to the reading?

a. the church closed its doors and did not allow people to enter, accusing those ill with the plague as unacceptable sinners.
b. the church was reestablishing itself as the determiner of acceptable morality among its people.
c. the church was being reformed due to the protestant leaders and their desire for godliness.
d. the church and its leaders were guilty of serious moral indiscretions and corruption on every level.

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

there you go thats what we are missing

answer: d

explanation:

mark twain, real name samuel langhorne clemens, was an american writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. among his novels are the adventures of tom sawyer and its sequel, the adventures of huckleberry finn, the latter often called "the great american novel". wikipedia